‘ARTIFICIAL intelligence’ and ‘driverless cars’ – terms that tend to make people excited and uncomfortable in equal measure. Both go hand-in-hand, with AI powering the most advanced self-driving vehic

Petrofac goes bust: Around 2,000 jobs in Scotland are at risk after North Sea oilfield services group Petrofac filed for administration, says Philip Georgiadis in the Financial Times. The trigger was

It’s been a tough two decades for UK-listed firms. BP, Shell and HSBC have dropped out of the ranks of the world’s largest listed companies. Britain’s current largest firm, AstraZeneca, doesn’t even m

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Ford is not the force it once was in Europe. In the past 10 years, the American giant has gone from being the second-biggest car brand in Europe (after Volkswagen), with sales of just over one million

THE UK’s number one Chinese car company is a brand born 101 years ago in the verdant English countryside: MG Motor. No, we haven’t lost our minds: Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation snapped up t